[kcomer]

My G4 Powerbook is going in for a screen replacement in a few days and I would like to know what the best way to backup all of my data and settings would be. I don't think I will have any data loss since the screen is the only thing that's bad, but you never know. I have a super drive and thought about just burning my entire home directory. I have a few items on other parts of the drive that I will need to backup as well, Apache documents directory, some custom php modules, etc... Will this ensure that I can recover all of my data and settings? I can reinstall any applications that I need to, so I'm not concerned with those. I do I have a windows 2000 computer I could back the data onto over the network, but I wasn't sure if that would work well. I would appreciate anyone giving me some good tips, how to's or things to watch out for in this process.

Thanks

[someone_else]

Originally posted by kcomer:
My G4 Powerbook is going in for a screen replacement in a few days and I would like to know what the best way to backup all of my data and settings would be. I don't think I will have any data loss since the screen is the only thing that's bad, but you never know. I
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I would appreciate anyone giving me some good tips, how to's or things to watch out for in this process.

Backup your home directory and /Library at the least. If as you said, you have Apache stuff, then back that up too. Then burn it all to a DVD. This should be everything you need to restore your environment and data.

FWIW, my PB went in for a screen replacement a few weeks ago, and it was fixed within a day (went out Thurs, fixed Fri, had it back Mon morning). All of my data was still there, but it is always wise to play it safe and make a backup.

HTH.

[Oneota]

The most complete thing to do would be to mount a network volume big enough to contain the contents of your PowerBook (the Win2000 box will be fine if its hard drive is big enough) and run NetRestore Helper (part of NetRestore 1.5.1 from http://www.bombich.com/software/netrestore.html ).

Select your HD as the "Master Disk", choose Read-Only, choose your Network volume as the destination, authenticate, and hit "Create Master Image". It'll make an ASR-happy disk image of your entire HD on the network.

If your PowerBook comes back with a wiped HD, just hook your PB up to another Mac via FireWire Target Disk Mode, mount the network volume, run NetRestore 1.5.1 on the host Mac (not NetRestore Helper this time), choose "Local Example" from the Source pop-up, type the path to the disk image in the blank, choose your PowerBook's HD as the Target, authenticate, and hit Restore.

[CatOne]

Originally posted by kcomer:
My G4 Powerbook is going in for a screen replacement in a few days and I would like to know what the best way to backup all of my data and settings would be. I don't think I will have any data loss since the screen is the only thing that's bad, but you never know. I have a super drive and thought about just burning my entire home directory. I have a few items on other parts of the drive that I will need to backup as well, Apache documents directory, some custom php modules, etc... Will this ensure that I can recover all of my data and settings? I can reinstall any applications that I need to, so I'm not concerned with those. I do I have a windows 2000 computer I could back the data onto over the network, but I wasn't sure if that would work well. I would appreciate anyone giving me some good tips, how to's or things to watch out for in this process.

Thanks

Buy an external firewire hard drive and carbon copy cloner your entire drive over. Then, just to be sure, boot from that drive and ensure everything's kosher. Pretty foolproof.